Sontag (1933–2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer’s life and career. The authors base this revision on Sontag’s newly released private correspondence, including emails, and the letters and memoirs of those who knew her ...
Wescott, only vaguely known to me until now, was famous before Hemingway (and the cruel butt of his homophobia. He is ostensibly the model for Robert Prentiss in THE SUN ALSO RISES, of which, according to Wiki, after meeting Prentiss, Jack Barnes, the narrator, says, ‘I just thought ...
These two very different memoirs offer contrasting views of Chinese childhoods just a decade apart, one of a middle-class family dealing with government persecution and hardship, the other of a much poorer rural family facing different hardships but able to lead a freer life. Jin Wang’s memoir...
While both autobiographies and memoirs are nonfiction, you're more likely to get a chronological sequence of life events and professional achievements in an autobiography. In a memoir, you're more likely to get a collection of personal details and life experiences in terms of how they affected t...
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Hotel Kid is one of those memoirs that sets out to perform a specific, if limited, task - in this case, to evoke another age and introduce the reader to a charming and eccentric family - and does it successfully with brevity, wit and (Mr. Lewis is, after all, his fathers son) ...
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France offers the celebrated Letters of the Marquise de Sévigné to her daughter, an intimate history of the Age of Louis XIV; numerous memoirs, such as those of Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, and the acerbic ones of the Cardinal de Retz (1717); and the philosopher and critic ...